how to pronounce jersey

/ˈdʒɝziː/

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jersey is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of jersey in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… like a Hoboken or Jersey City on a much …”

meanings of jersey

name:

A dependency of the United Kingdom; the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and England.
A breed of dairy cattle from Jersey.
A town in Georgia, United States.
An English earldom.
New Jersey.

noun:

A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.
A type of fabric knit.
A cow of the Jersey breed.
A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

jersey frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word jersey occurs in english on average 20.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics jersey can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that jersey can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;